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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Prince Charles

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Clever Society Straight
My Rainforests Project has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.
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Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth
A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
PRINCE CHARLES

Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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Discover End Value Yourself
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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Activity Paint Reach Soul Transportation
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Existence Feeling Myself Time
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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Big Challenge Change Climate Face Greatness
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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Difficult Economy Face Warm World
Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Learning Myself Parents
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
PRINCE CHARLES

Build Offend Ourselves Replacement Yourself
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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Dimension Evaporation Time World

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